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Cloned HP 6300 Small Factor Windows 7 64 bits Disk MBR gets easily broken after wrong power off or electrical failure

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Issue details:

1) We cloned a factory original desktop HP 6300 Small factor computer with Windows 7 professional 64 Bits after adding lot of software we needed.
2) With Acronis CD we create .tib file.
3) We restore image to antoher disk.
4) We replace original disk with cloned one.
5) After few days or randomly Windows stop booting, freezes in HP logo.
6) First time we fix this with Windows 7 repair option, computer boots again without issues.
7) The issue 5) again after a few days but this time we were not able to repair so we decided to clone again with same image .tib file.
8) We get error of attached image.
9) We are not able to restore image backup again, we format the destination disk, delete all partitions, create a new image .tib file, create a disk to disk copy, an external disk to hard disk copy but still getting same error.
10) Notice that if we install Windows 7 from scratch the computer works ok.

Thank you for your help.

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Sounds like the boot manager is corrupted you can attempt repair. Here is a link on how to.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html

I do understand that MBR is corrupted but we can't fix it yet.
The issue is probably related to source disk a MBR or GPT? or UEFI system booting.
I have use Acronis to clone 1000 computers ( Dell ) without any issues, now with this HP 6300 Small factor with Acronis 2013 or 2014 we are facing this issues.
Anyone had similar problems ?
The original Disk contains 4 partitions,

Do you mean you are getting the same error message?